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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Bradan agus Salman

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Chuala Léna agus mé scríbhneoir cáiliúil an tseachtaine seo caite. Chuaigh muid go dtí ar lar ina gCathair na hÄingeal. Chonaic muidsa Sal...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

"A dunce or a rogue"

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"The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue." So reasons Emma Goldman a century ago in...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Caption the flag

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I entered the grounds where I work today. Small Stars-and-Stripes flags dotted the verges of the lawn, a scarce green in this hundred-degr...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Unshackling the liberal arts

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Chelsea Manning urges: "Read everything. Absorb everything that is out there and act as your own filter. Hunt down your own answers ...
Monday, September 7, 2015

Surplus Labor + me

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Judy Cox , explaining Marx's theory in International Socialism (Summer 1998), a SWP magazine, concludes "As alienation is rooted...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

Mark Blake's "Pretend You're in a War: The Who & The Sixties": Book Review

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While Mods and The Who inevitably join together, the band's ties to modernism, in art and culture, have not received the in-depth atte...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Pete Townshend's "Who I Am"" Audiobook Review

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I heard this all the way through the acknowledgements, where Pete thanks his editors for assisting in cutting this down from 750 to 450 ...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Mike Segretto's "The Who FAQ": Book Review

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The Who Sell Out ranks in my top three favorite albums. I took my first girlfriend to the film adaptation of Quadrophenia when it opened...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Ag an Babhla na Choillte Chulleain aríst.

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  Ar feadh an tseachtaine seo caite, thóg amach Léna agus mé leis Niall agus a chailín Áine. Chuaigh muid ag an Babhla na Choillte Chull...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

George Eliot's "Middlemarch": Audiobook review

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I am reviewing Juliet Stevenson's reading of the entire book, over thirty hours. She captures the nuances of expression in George Elio...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

Mark Boyle's "Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi": Book Review

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This Irish activist lived without money and oil for three years. Yet he writes in his third book about how such gestures seem to pale be...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Ken Bruen's "Green Hell": Book Review

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As a loyal reader of the Jack Taylor series, I feared that he would not survive the batterings and beatings meted out to him in Galway...
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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Molly Crabapple's "Shell Game"

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According to Kristen O'Regan , this is "A New England"; I located this with no idea what it was in a search for Occupy art...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Rojava's revolution

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  "In Northern Syria, 2.5 million people are living in a stateless, feminist, religiously tolerant, anti-capitalist society of thei...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Lex Bayer + John Migdor's "Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart": Book Review

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If you don't believe in God or gods, what then? Stanford humanist chaplain Migdor and his colleague, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Lex B...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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